Resilient mounting



LOAD (Lbs) Jan. 23, 1945. LE RoY M KUBAUGH 2,367,826

RESILIENT MOUNTING v Filed Oct. 22, 1941 Il l0 EY g? ATTORNEYS Patented Een. 23, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT. orifice 2,367,826 RESILIENT MOUNTING Le Roy M. Kubaugh, Akron, Ohio, assignor to The Firestonev .Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Qhio, a corporation of Ohio Application October 22, 1941, Serial No. 416.077

4 Claims. .(Cl. 2.48,-358) rubber insulated relation, are constrained against f separation even after damage to or destruction of the intervening rubber.

A further object is to provide a vibrationdampening connector including individual resilient members for the main support and for rebound cushioning whereby to facilitate the seective assembly of devices having predetermined characteristics.

Other objects are generally to improve and simplify the construction and operation of resilient mountings for one or more of the above mentigned purposes, while still further obiects will be apparent to persons skilled in the art upon an examination of the description and drawing.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a vertical section through a resilient mounting having the invention incorporated therein.

Fig.r 2 shows graphically the deflection characteristics under load of the joint shown in Fir. i for various rubber members having Shore durometer hardness as shown.

Fig. 3 illustrates in vertical section an alternative embodiment of' the invention.

Fig. 4 is a graph that illustrates the deflection` characteristics of the device of Fig. 3 under load.

Like parts are identied by the same reference characters throughout the drawing,r and description.

With reference to Fig. l, a cup-shaped housing II), aperturedat II, is fastened by means of bolts I2 and I3 to a xed member or base I4. A bolt l1 has a head portion I8 disposed within housing Il) intermediate a main resilient carrying support I!! and a resilient rebound washer 20. The shank portion of bolt I'I loosely projects through aperture I I to extend upwardly vfrom the housing I0. Bolt Il engages the relatively mov- The main resilient support I9 and the rebound washer are normally of somewhat greater cross sectional area than is the interior of housing I0, whereby upon installation of the device, both the main and rebound supports are maintained under both radial and axial compression to provide a certain amount of stability between the connected members I4 and 22 while allowing relative .movement therebetween under load, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Rebound washer 20 is dished to provide a void 20A below the aperture II to facilitate universal movement of boltl'i.

The supporting member I9 is preferably provided with a chamber 24A, opening downwardly therefrom, to provide pneumatic cushioning means intermediate members I4 and I9 to supplement the cushioning of the resilient. members and to provide a space for the distortion of member I9y in a downward direction. Preferably the rebound member have marginally tapered inner able member 22 to be supported, said member being clampingly engaged between annular shoulder 23 and lock nut 24.

upper wall of member I9 is provided with a shallow channel for the reception of bolt head I8 therein. Both the main load support and the portions to provide a channel 25 to permit expansion of marginal portions of the members.

Because member I9 absorbs the main load and member 20 absorbs the rebound, it is desirable to vary the characteristics of one ;or both of these members in accordance with the use for which the mounting is to be employed, and I have found that the present construction is highly desirable from anassembly standpoint because main and rebound members with varying characteristics, or combinations thereof, may be employed to produce'a resilient mounting having predetermined vibration dampening properties. y

An alternative embodiment of the invention is shown in Fig. 3, this type being particularly adapted for use in suspending a vibration inducing device from a supporting member, for example, for mounting a ceiling hung fan. The general construction is similar to the Fig. l disclosure with the exception that a single resilient member 26 is employed in place of individual main support and rebound members. Head I8@ -of bolt |10 is disposed within a. channel having divergent walls 28 preventing removal of the head and providing rebound absorbing means. A lower flange-like portion 30 provides the main support for the load carried by bolt IIIl. Member 26 is conned under both axial and 'radial pressure for purposes above stated. Fig. 4 is a deflection chart showing characteristics of tested devices of the type showninFig. 3.

It will be noted that bolt head I8 of the Fig. l

construction is normally positioned closer to the apertured wall of housing I than to the base member I4, whereas in the Fig. 3 construction the converse istrue, thereby permitting more denection of the bolt under main load compression than under rebound compression. The connectors above described not only allow movement in a verticallplane between members I4 and 22, as shown, but also permit universal movement therebetween within certain limits. The head I8 of bolt I1 is of larger diameter than the aperture II of housing I0; hence a complete failure of the resilient elements'to separate the bolt from the housing will not result in complete severence of the connected parts. Member 26 is formed in the lower portion thereof with an annular groove 36 providing a void upwardly from aperture III to permit universal movement of bolt |10 without binding of the resilient material.

What is claimed is:

1. A resilient mounting for use between two relatively movable members, said mounting comprising a cup-shaped housing adapted for attachment to one of the members and provided at the closed end thereof with an aperture, a bolt adapted for connection to the other member and having a disk-like head portion disposed in the housing and a shank portion prog jecting loosely through said aperture, a main load-supporting member comprising a body of resilient material disposed within the housing in abutment with the face of said bolt head, an apertured rebound element mounted on the bolt head, said rebound element being concavo-convex in shape with its convex side adjacent said bolt head, said load-supporting member and rebound element being composed of rubber, the rubber of each having a different hardness characteristic from that of the rubber composing the other, said member and element having continguous portions outwardly from the bolt head and marginal surfaces divergent therefrom to provide an annular channel, substantially V-shaped incross section, between` said outer margins and side walls of the housing, said load-supporting member provided with a dished outer wall providing 2. A resilient mounting for connecting rela tively movable members, said mounting comprising a housing adapted for mounting on one of the members and provided in the end wall thereof with an aperture, a bolt adapted for connection to the other member and having an enlarged head portion disposed within said housing and a shank projecting loosely through the apertured housing wall, a concave-convex disk carried by the bolt adjacent the head thereof and disposed within the housing wtih the concave side facing toward the aperture, and a second rubber disk disposed within the housing with a portion thereof contiguous to the face of the bolt head, said disks being maintained within the housing under both axial and radial compression, the rubber composing one of said disks being more resilient than the rubber composing the other disk.

3. A vibration dampener of the class described comprising a housing having an aperture, a flat headed bolt projecting loosely through said aperture with the said head thereof disposed within th housing, a rubber support member disposed within said housing under the fiat head of said bolt, said support member being provided with a chamber opening downwardly therefrom whereby space is formed into which the rubber of said support may distort when said support is under load, a rubber rebound member disposed within said housing and being removablyl mounted on said bolt between said head and said apertured wall, said rebound member being of substantial thickness and being concave-convex in shape with its concaveface turned toward the apertured housing wall, the rubber composing said supporting member having a different hardness characteristic from that of the rubber composing said rebound member.

4. A mounting between two relatively movable parts comprising a housing having an aperture, a bolt projecting loosely through said aperture with the head of the bolt disposed within the housing, a rubber support and a rubber rebound member mounted within said housing, said rubber members being substantially concave-convex and being so mounted as to entirely enclose said bolt head between their convex surfaces, the rubber composingthe said members having a differin its downward movement than it does in its upward moovement.

LE ROY M. KUBAUGH. 

